The company in partnership with Twenty-First Century Fox
Inc. will also increase spending for its revamped theme park,
which is part of the resort, to 1 billion ringgit to allow for
better rides and attractions, Genting said in a statement. That
is more than double 400 million ringgit originally flagged in
July. Malaysia’s only casino operator plans to add hotel rooms,
premium retail outlets, a new cable car station and show arena
for 10,000 people, it said.

His Genting group of companies are also expanding abroad,
from the Bahamas to Manila, amid restrictions on opening more
casinos on home soil, where Muslims are forbidden from gambling
under Malaysia’s Shariah laws. He opened a casino at the
Aqueduct Racetrack in New York last year, controls casino
operators in the U.K., and operates Resorts World Sentosa, one
of Singapore’s two gambling resorts.

Another resort is planned for Birmingham in the U.K. in
mid-2015. Lim also opened a 750-acre beach front resort on the
Bimini islands in the Bahamas in July as part of the group’s
expansion in the Americas.

The revamped 25-acre (10.1-hectare) Malaysian theme park
will be called Twentieth Century Fox World and the New York-based movie-maker’s first, featuring 25 rides and attractions of
a cinematic nature, the companies said in a joint statement.
They will feature brands from films including Ice Age, Rio,
Alien and Night at the Museum, they said.

Harvard University-educated Lim is Malaysia’s third-richest
man with a net worth of $7.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg
Billionaires Index.